Climate: Temperature
Temperature decreases with increasing elevation
- At the base: average monthly temperature ranges from 23.5 degrees Celsius to 27 degrees Celsius, or 74 degrees Fahrenheit to 81 degrees Fahrenheit.
- At mountain peaks: average monthly temperature ranges from 17 degrees Celsius to 20 degrees Celsius or 63 degrees Fahrenheit to 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
- From low to high elevations, mean annual temperature decreases.
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Seasonality and Trends over three decades in El Verde
Seasons and Trends
- No frost ever recorded in El Yuque.
- Seasonality: Small variations over a year at any location. Data from El Verde (1,148 feet) show a 6 degree range from minimum to maximum temperature over a twelve-month period.
- Warming trend over three decades, may result from global warming and local trend of increased urbanization around El Yunque Forest in the buffer zone, which impacts the ecosystem in the Forest.